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bbde50a30650215810dcdd24db8f2977 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-aug-15-mn-426-story.html | Heroic Race to Save Boy’s Life | Heroic Race to Save Boy’s Life
Around the time Buford O. Furrow Jr. allegedly walked into the Jewish community center with an automatic weapon on a deranged mission that would shock anew this gun-prone and gun-weary land, paramedic Todd Carb was puttering around a firehouse nearby.
Over at Providence Holy Cross Medical... |
8c0ec1afa380d6ebf71bd2afe6cc30f0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-aug-15-tm-252-story.html | Elvis Has Just Entered the Building | Elvis Has Just Entered the Building
Whenever Billy Blanks retells his life’s drama, its major actors--even the federal government--are sufficiently comfortable to address him as just “Billy.”
There, at the humble origins in Phoenix of what would later become his Tae Bo Aerobics workout, is the actress Catherine Bach, m... |
ebe01f6ee043eee1d02cd7845b43af21 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-aug-18-me-1320-story.html | 4 Indicted in Attack on Black Man | 4 Indicted in Attack on Black Man
Four local members of what is described as the nation’s largest racist skinhead group have been indicted by a grand jury in the attempted murder of an African American man, authorities said Tuesday.
The unprovoked assault with a bottle and a knife was “one of the most egregious inciden... |
8e24812c7efa58199aacbfb3b2b689d7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-aug-20-mn-1943-story.html | Nolan to Become 1st Female White House Counsel | Nolan to Become 1st Female White House Counsel
Two weeks after a longtime aide turned down his offer to be White House counsel, President Clinton has turned to another veteran of the White House to take the top job.
Beth Nolan, a 47-year-old law professor who holds a senior post at the Justice Department, will next mon... |
4b8d382ac02372c2978c536904623f67 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-aug-21-fi-2205-story.html | Conde Nast to Buy Disney Unit | Conde Nast to Buy Disney Unit
Walt Disney Co. has agreed to sell its Fairchild Publications unit to Conde Nast Publications Inc. for about $650 million, a person familiar with the deal said Friday.
The decision to sell Fairchild, which publishes titles such as Women’s Wear Daily, the fashion industry trade publication,... |
53b9bedd506207f0baca17a3c715b931 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-aug-26-ca-3705-story.html | Salsa King | Salsa King
It’s early on a Monday morning and the Old Town Pasadena home of Air Advertising is empty and quiet, save for the sound of classical music wafting from the office of executive director Oscar Abadia.
It seems a strange fit for the man some credit with popularizing the vibrant, tropical strains of salsa and me... |
1061326a545a59550ca71bede0a68c9d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-aug-31-fi-5240-story.html | Russian Money Trail Leading to More Banks : Scandal: U.S. is investigating international institutions’ reports of ‘suspicious activity’ that might be linked to possible laundering through a New York bank. | Russian Money Trail Leading to More Banks : Scandal: U.S. is investigating international institutions’ reports of ‘suspicious activity’ that might be linked to possible laundering through a New York bank.
Deutsche Bank and other international financial institutions have reported to U.S. authorities on suspicious accoun... |
4e797036fde76816b519562f3894c0e7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-dec-03-mn-40140-story.html | Some Angry Residents Join in as Marches Move From Downtown | Some Angry Residents Join in as Marches Move From Downtown
Responding to outraged residents who poured into the streets after fighting off tear gas in their neighborhood, Seattle officials Thursday eased the state of emergency that has paralyzed the inner city--allowing at least two protest marches and scaling back the... |
65cc8e08a361799b0996ff7fe054bf66 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-dec-04-ca-40265-story.html | Patrick Stewart Is a Properly Menacing Scrooge | Patrick Stewart Is a Properly Menacing Scrooge
Charles Dickens’ 1843 morality story, “A Christmas Carol,” is the Yule season’s most engaging and enduring contemporary literary tradition. Its unabashedly sentimental message of redemption and charity is timeless and universal, its tone somehow in conflict with the shrill... |
7d4462d298a2008a3be9384c9163de7c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-dec-07-fi-41290-story.html | Cedar Fair to Ink Deal Today for Water Park | Cedar Fair to Ink Deal Today for Water Park
The Ohio company that owns Knott’s Berry Farm and the Buena Park Hotel said that it expects to complete its purchase today of White Water Canyon, a water park in San Diego County, for $11.5 million.
Cedar Fair LP will trade in White Water’s Western motif for a beach theme, re... |
7d9827c3ab3fd8276d305591c700b34d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-dec-07-fi-41298-story.html | Exxon Mobil Halts Health Benefits to Domestic Partners | Exxon Mobil Halts Health Benefits to Domestic Partners
Newly merged Exxon Mobil Corp. said Monday that it will cease offering health-care benefits to its employees’ domestic partners, touching off heated criticism among gay rights advocates.
A spokesman for the company said executives overseeing the union of the two oi... |
5c5c61ffc98eb7052ecc3e6140b07098 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-dec-08-ca-41569-story.html | Mix Artists, Politics and ‘Cradle Will Rock’ | Mix Artists, Politics and ‘Cradle Will Rock’
“Those who cannot remember the past,” philosopher George Santayana wrote, “are condemned to repeat it,” and writer-director Tim Robbins has no intention of letting anyone forget. His smart and pleasingly ambitious “Cradle Will Rock” is not only a lively and fittingly chaotic... |
fde1fa7f54d9a9cf67408c23bc68025d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-dec-09-mn-42030-story.html | The Pain of Being Gentrified | The Pain of Being Gentrified
Nestled along a southern stretch of Santa Monica Bay, Manhattan Beach was for decades a middle-class ocean lover’s paradise.
It was a place where a teacher’s salary or an aerospace worker’s wage could pay the mortgage on a comfortable, if modest, house within walking or bicycling distance o... |
83e6df175075ecfdf92a7037bf75f79b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-dec-10-me-42501-story.html | Gun Show Is Leaving Pomona for Las Vegas | Gun Show Is Leaving Pomona for Las Vegas
Blaming a recently passed ordinance banning firearm sales on county property, officials of the Great Western Gun Show said Thursday that they are leaving Los Angeles and moving to Las Vegas.
Los Angeles County has been home to the gigantic gun show, one of the nation’s largest, ... |
d40794c6c67138b7a26d515eff05b7ba | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-dec-10-mn-42521-story.html | Yeltsin Reminds U.S. of Moscow’s Nuclear Capability | Yeltsin Reminds U.S. of Moscow’s Nuclear Capability
Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin bluntly reminded President Clinton on Thursday that Moscow has a vast nuclear arsenal and railed at the U.S. leader for trying to meddle in Russia’s internal affairs.
“Yesterday, Clinton took the liberty of putting pressure on Russia... |
e5a6bc4096f5d31bd6dd78a82beeaa43 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-dec-13-he-43337-story.html | The Organic Roots of Social Ineptitude | The Organic Roots of Social Ineptitude
Yes, we know what you’re thinking, even if you don’t say it. And now it’s been scientifically proved. Researchers in Britain have isolated the area in the brain that gives us the ability to read people’s minds. “Mentalizing,” that is, reacting to others based on what we think are ... |
23d90eadca84d3da7b468a91f6e20749 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-dec-13-mn-43419-story.html | Japan Is Flush With Obsession | Japan Is Flush With Obsession
It’s got wings, it’s sensitive, it’s smart. It cares, it knows when you’re around, it bleats when you arrive. Ignore it and you could be sorry. Treat it well and it will comfort you in your old age.
A new kind of house pet? No, it’s the Japanese toilet in all its glory. And if you believe ... |
db993c7acd26f14d467cc2269e801016 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-dec-15-mn-44069-story.html | Bosnian Serb Gets 40-Year Sentence | Bosnian Serb Gets 40-Year Sentence
A Bosnian Serb who nicknamed himself “Adolf” and allegedly boasted of killing up to a score of Muslims each day before his morning coffee was sentenced Tuesday to 40 years in prison, the harshest punishment yet handed down by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslav... |
8dd03a6aaeb64ee2a339d42bd749b21c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-dec-16-me-44518-story.html | Preparing to Combat a Deadly Influenza Pandemic | Preparing to Combat a Deadly Influenza Pandemic
“It is horrible. One can stand it to see one, two or 20 men die, but to see these poor devils dropping like flies sort of gets on your nerves. We have been averaging about 100 deaths per day, and still keeping it up. There is no doubt in my mind that there is a new infect... |
1b95746b66849a625d722b8ba8aea01b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-dec-23-mn-46775-story.html | 85% of Blue Line Deaths Occur on Fastest Segment | 85% of Blue Line Deaths Occur on Fastest Segment
Nearly 85% of the deaths on the Metro Blue Line occur where the trains run fastest along the deadly light-rail line connecting downtown Los Angeles with Long Beach, an analysis by The Times shows.
The fewest Blue Line accidents--but by far the most deaths--have occurred ... |
4875110a03cc50059802d3fdfc745278 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-dec-24-mn-47046-story.html | N.Y. School Board Votes Out Chancellor | N.Y. School Board Votes Out Chancellor
A bitterly divided New York City Board of Education voted 4 to 3 on Thursday against renewing the contract of Chancellor Rudy Crew, head of the nation’s largest public school system.
Crew’s departure--which is scheduled for June, but could come much earlier--represents a clear vic... |
e2c2fdac0cd1f8736a77c298c6148388 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-dec-29-ss-48653-story.html | RIGHT PERSON RIGHT TIME | RIGHT PERSON RIGHT TIME
In these final years of the American Century, the American Dream waded ashore in Italy. In the land of the papacy, of Michelangelo and Galileo and Leonardo Da Vinci, within sight of the canals of Venice and within earshot of the romantic singing gondoliers, a kid hawked his wares to tourists.
Je... |
af38642b5b7ecb71382a1b182be40c96 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-feb-01-ca-3733-story.html | HBO Launches Spinoff With Pair of Excellent Kids’ Shows | HBO Launches Spinoff With Pair of Excellent Kids’ Shows
If HBO’s sneak peek Tuesday night at its two new kids’ shows is any indication, the network’s spinoff of a 24-hour HBO Family channel--officially launched today--is going to give tried-and-true PBS and Nickelodeon some real competition.
Both series--"A Little Curi... |
b25d9f719e78988c23ed76cbd5f3f1f9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-feb-01-mn-3716-story.html | Leonard Lewin; Author of Satire on Dangers of Peace | Leonard Lewin; Author of Satire on Dangers of Peace
Leonard C. Lewin, who penned a brilliant satire purporting to be a government study on the dangers of peace titled “Report From Iron Mountain,” has died. He was 82.
Lewin died Thursday in New Haven, Conn.
The book, published in 1967 at the height of the Vietnam War, w... |
b66821ca0148eb7b3a399a35129cfd22 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-feb-03-fi-4374-story.html | Success Was Right at His Fingertips | Success Was Right at His Fingertips
George Schaeffer didn’t know fake fingernails from real ones when he bought a dental supply company back in 1981. But he soon discovered that the acrylic material used to make dentures was a big seller with manicurists.
“They were buying hordes of it. They didn’t have the right produ... |
176bc17b358f68a8502ade470b41d4d0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-feb-04-mn-4882-story.html | Gay’s Slaying Alters Attitudes in College Town | Gay’s Slaying Alters Attitudes in College Town
If it is possible for one horrible incident to raise the consciousness of an entire community, it seems to have happened in this sleepy college town. In ways that no one could have predicted before the death of Matthew Shepard in October, town residents, students and facul... |
579346e06afc55ade3bd6ac6e7f283ed | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-feb-06-me-5476-story.html | Pasadena Rail Line | Pasadena Rail Line
* Re “Bus Riders Union Calls Pasadena Rail Line ‘Racist,’ ” Jan. 29: Eric Mann of the Bus Riders Union says the Pasadena light rail is “racist”? The Pasadena Blue Line corridor is 66% minority, and it’s this corridor’s residents who wanted the quality and speed of light-rail service enough to get the... |
1fdfd491733e22a685f8c9b4018cde5b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-feb-09-mn-6397-story.html | Hong Kong-Beijing Dispute Deepens | Hong Kong-Beijing Dispute Deepens
Setting the stage for a constitutional crisis that will test the limits of Hong Kong’s judicial independence, a senior Chinese Cabinet official Monday attacked a ruling by the territory’s highest court granting the right of abode to thousands of mainland-born children whose parents liv... |
784fe8e698ce400a3d0365fb0beb2cbb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-feb-10-mn-6763-story.html | Jordan Finally Embraces Light of King’s Life | Jordan Finally Embraces Light of King’s Life
The newly widowed queen of Jordan threw open the doors of Zahran Palace on Tuesday to accept the outstretched hands and tearful embraces of thousands of women who lined up to share their common grief.
Queen Noor al Hussein--"Light of Hussein"--had just lost her husband, the ... |
f2f1123d3d477202d1d27b073913a0c1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-feb-11-fi-7006-story.html | Taco Bell Settles Suit With Hindu Over Meal Order | Taco Bell Settles Suit With Hindu Over Meal Order
Yo quiero bean burrito. Not beef burrito.
Taco Bell has paid a confidential sum to settle a lawsuit by a devout Hindu who sued the fast-food chain for serving him a beef burrito rather than the bean one he ordered.
The company settled the suit filed by Mukesh K. Rai, 33... |
6a698d6466a10d7e04d0f635c8e22f29 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-feb-16-mn-8503-story.html | Expect No Light Verse From San Francisco’s Poet | Expect No Light Verse From San Francisco’s Poet
Let us feed the pigeons
at the City Hall
urging them to do their duty
in the Mayor’s office.
--Lawrence Ferlinghetti, from his poem “Junkman’s Obbligato,” 1958.
****
As a rule, Lawrence Ferlinghetti disdains government and avoids contact with officialdom.
But after a life... |
f9c9d32d60ce09089b3ab512cd132836 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-feb-21-tr-10085-story.html | On the Trail of Signs and Wonderss | On the Trail of Signs and Wonderss
Where three rivers come together, spirits must abound. I think this as I leave Big Bend National Park and head east toward los tres rios, the confluence of the Rio Grande, the Pecos and the Devils on the Texas-Mexico border.
The cliffs and canyons above these rivers are alive with pai... |
cc6290a8ef2c3a64780240573c97e978 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-feb-26-sp-12058-story.html | Rodman or Not, She’s Living Her Dream | Rodman or Not, She’s Living Her Dream
They were good questions, questions that needed to be asked of Dennis Rodman:
“Don’t you think you are being a distraction, causing this whole circus and prolonging your signing? Don’t you think that’s kind of being selfish for someone trying to be a team player?”
They were posed n... |
a6ec8918a7b7237267beba4fe8439831 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jan-12-fi-62726-story.html | Chinese Investment Firm Gitic Collapses | Chinese Investment Firm Gitic Collapses
In one of China’s biggest corporate collapses, the investment arm of Guangdong province declared bankruptcy Sunday, leaving debts of nearly $4.4 billion to mostly foreign lenders, who had believed the government would guarantee the loans.
But in a lesson for both reckless Chinese... |
d254c25369dd336ac438b8e1c1521950 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jan-13-sp-63165-story.html | This Is Greatness No One Could Pin Down | This Is Greatness No One Could Pin Down
. . . Like you remember where you were when Elvis died. That’s what you’ll remember, where you were if he retired. ‘Cause I’ll tell you something, when Michael Jordan retires, there’ll be a lot of problems, because we have a lot of young talent but Michael Jordan is something you... |
a6de0db89acf90257f51f0770346dc08 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jan-14-ca-63257-story.html | License to Hunt Ducks | License to Hunt Ducks
Mighty Duck captain Paul Kariya remembers what it was like to be a hockey fan. Growing up in Vancouver, Kariya watched his idol, Wayne Gretzky, play for the Edmonton Oilers on television; he studied every move and every play.
That’s why the 24-year-old National Hockey League superstar feels strang... |
1bb9fa9e224fba38733924b7d08a3ffa | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jan-22-me-520-story.html | Man Sentenced to Death in Killings | Man Sentenced to Death in Killings
Serial killer Gerald Parker, dubbed the “bedroom basher” for a rampage of sex slayings that terrorized Orange County in the 1970s, was sentenced to death Thursday after an emotional hearing in which victims’ families spoke of their years of anguish and loss.
Using new DNA technology a... |
bacdb70ffa1f1c264acdb1d7f7c828bf | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jan-22-mn-524-story.html | A & M Records Closes; Geffen Lays Off 110 | A & M Records Closes; Geffen Lays Off 110
After 37 years of spinning out hits by such acts as Cat Stevens, the Police and Sheryl Crow, A & M Records closed its doors Thursday--firing nearly 170 employees who were given the day to pack and leave.
Artists and executives hugged in the parking lot as weeping employees carr... |
7a56d45aa16237130b821b942d64034e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jan-23-me-835-story.html | A Divine View of Van Gogh | A Divine View of Van Gogh
He is commonly portrayed as a sometimes loony genius who failed in a fanatical quest to become an evangelical preacher, turned his back on religion and went on to become one of history’s most celebrated painters.
But Vincent van Gogh--whose landmark work is on display through May 16 at the Los... |
71603ddadd128b7767e87de343d7e793 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jan-26-mn-1772-story.html | Robert Shaw; Dean of U.S. Choral Conductors | Robert Shaw; Dean of U.S. Choral Conductors
Robert Shaw, who represented the epitome of choral conducting for six decades and has been called the dean of American choral conducting, died Monday. He was 82.
Shaw, also known for his work with orchestras, died in a hospital in New Haven, Conn., after suffering a stroke Su... |
7b111c7db3beafe57ca3c570cc7faa70 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jan-31-me-3606-story.html | Omigod, the Galleria Died | Omigod, the Galleria Died
We have a fascinating death in progress here. Soon, the Sherman Oaks Galleria will cease to exist as a mall. The owners have abandoned any hope of reviving it and will shut down the Galleria in a few months, commence a heavy renovation and convert the great hulk into an office center.
A big de... |
2f7f2a3225629a0e319c21f7a17b270e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jul-02-mn-52334-story.html | Sylvia Sidney; Veteran Movie Character Actress | Sylvia Sidney; Veteran Movie Character Actress
Sylvia Sidney, a durable character actress for seven decades who in her mid-80s appeared in the 1996 hit film “Mars Attacks!” died Thursday in New York.
Sidney died at Lennox Hill Hospital of throat cancer, said her Los Angeles agent, Ro Diamond. She was 88.
Over the last ... |
e57630a56f274787908374ac910d4b16 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jul-03-fi-52483-story.html | Shandling and Ex-Manager Settle Suit | Shandling and Ex-Manager Settle Suit
One of Hollywood’s bitterest legal feuds ended Friday when comedian Garry Shandling’s conflict-of-interest lawsuit against his former manager and close friend, Brad Grey, was settled for undisclosed terms.
Shandling, who starred in the popular HBO series “The Larry Sanders Show,” su... |
c0e33804691ad0583a749f7d2d0a817a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jul-07-me-53709-story.html | Padilla Becomes L.A.'s Youngest Councilman | Padilla Becomes L.A.'s Youngest Councilman
In an emotional ceremony Tuesday, 26-year-old Alex Padilla became the youngest member of the Los Angeles City Council, taking the oath of office administered by 87-year-old former Councilman Ernani Bernardi.
A teary-eyed Padilla dedicated his first term to his parents, Santos ... |
8ce70417771c091a1090dec4f2d364bd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jul-08-mn-53989-story.html | Clinton Visit Illuminates Depth of Poverty on Sioux Reservation | Clinton Visit Illuminates Depth of Poverty on Sioux Reservation
In the heart of the Badlands Wednesday, President Clinton encountered some of the worst of American poverty.
Clinton was the first incumbent president to visit Indian tribal lands since Franklin D. Roosevelt made a quick stop at a Cherokee reservation in N... |
362de3531f8ba5ca7c40baafaa3bfeec | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jul-14-mn-55835-story.html | Aaron Soffer Lapin; Founded Reddi-Wip Inc. | Aaron Soffer Lapin; Founded Reddi-Wip Inc.
Aaron Soffer Lapin, the founder and first president of Reddi-Wip Inc. who pioneered the concept of aerosol packaging of whipped cream, has died. He was 85.
Lapin, nicknamed “Bunny,” died Monday in Los Angeles. He maintained homes here, in New York City and in Miami.
In Decembe... |
81817b868a646b35d23d08639e2193d3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jul-16-me-56492-story.html | Moon Launch Was Man’s Shining Hour | Moon Launch Was Man’s Shining Hour
“No matter what discomforts and expenses you had to bear to come here,” said a NASA guide to a group of guests at the conclusion of a tour of the Space Center on Cape Kennedy on July 15, 1969, “there will be seven minutes tomorrow morning that will make you feel it was worth it.”
It w... |
dbe7ded59ab839fac5b53b8e6efa222a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jul-24-mn-59126-story.html | Frank M. Johnson Jr.; U.S. Judge Issued Key Civil Rights Rulings | Frank M. Johnson Jr.; U.S. Judge Issued Key Civil Rights Rulings
Frank M. Johnson Jr., a federal judge whose precedent-setting rulings brought down racial barriers across the South, died Friday of pneumonia. He was 80.
Johnson, who became a hero of the civil rights movement and a target of then-Gov. George C. Wallace, ... |
3164ff6184559de0b050a5d242e1531a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jul-26-ca-59643-story.html | Worlds of Wayne : ‘Utopia Parkway’ CD Is a Meditation on an East Coast Street--but It’s Not Far From Here | Worlds of Wayne : ‘Utopia Parkway’ CD Is a Meditation on an East Coast Street--but It’s Not Far From Here
Utopia Parkway is 3,000 miles from here, but even if you’ve never left Southern California, you know it well.
That’s the impression one gets from listening to “Utopia Parkway,” the new album by the sharp New York/N... |
3d633307b46cd7fb26a27ff4feed43ff | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jul-28-mn-60260-story.html | House OKs Extension of China Trade Ties | House OKs Extension of China Trade Ties
The House on Tuesday approved a one-year extension of normal trade relations with China, despite recent concerns about the nation’s alleged theft of U.S. nuclear secrets and continuing disapproval of Beijing’s human rights policies.
The 260-170 rejection of an effort to sever nor... |
47bddc73ed113ea309a8a9742e52f26a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jul-29-mn-60699-story.html | Final $1.2 Million Added to Thai Workers’ Settlement | Final $1.2 Million Added to Thai Workers’ Settlement
At night, Rojana Cheunchujit slept on a dirty floor with seven other women, among the mice and the cockroaches.
Days were no better. She was paid a pittance for 16 hours of sewing. Trapped by guards and barbed wire, Cheunchujit had little choice or hope of escape.
Au... |
7171812f1682f0688552dbf9fb52fc09 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jun-04-mn-44037-story.html | Incest Trial Sheds Light on Polygamy in Utah | Incest Trial Sheds Light on Polygamy in Utah
For three days this week, a jury of eight men listened to competing versions of the truth, verbal combat that pitted the testimony of a nervous teenage girl against a powerful family whose private practices she dared reveal to the world. The bizarre case shed light on an alm... |
f5e663c807c52780588e2d8dc4d0c3b5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jun-10-me-46263-story.html | Great Leap Into Reform | Great Leap Into Reform
Tuesday’s vote for a new Los Angeles City Charter is a great achievement. By an unexpectedly wide margin, voters shelved the city’s 74-year-old fossil of a charter and substituted one that promises a more responsive, efficient and accountable city government. Now begins the hard work to make that... |
3562a5752c589363a7242cc044fa05e7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jun-12-ca-45573-story.html | History of Gems | History of Gems
Columbia Pictures’ history with the subsidiary label Screen Gems goes back even further than the TV label created in 1948 (In the Know, May 31). The name was first used in 1933 when Columbia Pictures acquired part ownership of the Charles Mintz animation studio. The studio, at the time, was producing “K... |
e7450d4897545b9828a11675e52af24b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jun-12-fi-45646-story.html | Oakley Will Open Its First Store, Employ an Ad Agency | Oakley Will Open Its First Store, Employ an Ad Agency
Oakley Inc. will open its first store next month at the Irvine Spectrum Center, part of a broad push under a new chief executive to increase the company’s visibility and expand all of its product lines.
During Oakley’s annual shareholders’ meeting Friday, the new ch... |
09045213f2d9d66e1978820d295eabe8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jun-16-me-47063-story.html | Tobacco Funds to Be Used for Sidewalks, Parks | Tobacco Funds to Be Used for Sidewalks, Parks
Los Angeles will use the first installment of its multimillion-dollar windfall from the national tobacco settlement to improve wheelchair access to sidewalks and build parks, under a plan approved by the City Council Tuesday.
The council unanimously agreed to spend about $8... |
de8d7b8bb44759183b197484d011df87 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jun-16-sp-47097-story.html | All 32 Games Will Be Televised | All 32 Games Will Be Televised
Over the past few years, John Paul Dellacamera and Rob Stone have become virtually synonymous with women’s soccer in the United States, the former as a play-by-play announcer and the latter as a feature specialist who anchors Worldwide Soccer.
Things will be no different in the World Cup.... |
d36f99df04beb6e377625b2f37aba021 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jun-21-ca-48611-story.html | Even an Insider Found Jar Jar, Well, Jarring | Even an Insider Found Jar Jar, Well, Jarring
How annoying is Jar Jar Binks? The comical, animated Gungan is so off-putting that even one of his creators says he found him hard to stomach at first.
The floppy-eared, loose-jointed creature who made his debut in “Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace” was an immediate h... |
70b54df0d0a03e01909e24b8917dea58 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jun-21-me-48752-story.html | Frustrations Abound in First Year of Prop. 227 | Frustrations Abound in First Year of Prop. 227
Ventura County educators disagree on the benefits of bilingual education. They clash on the best way to teach children who speak little or no English. And they have failed to reach any consensus on how to implement Proposition 227 since it passed one year ago this month.
B... |
21ec01490c69af0dee99d835252d4bdd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jun-28-mn-50904-story.html | George Papadopoulos; Led Military Junta in Greece | George Papadopoulos; Led Military Junta in Greece
Col. George Papadopoulos, who headed the military dictatorship in Greece from 1967 to 1973 that imprisoned thousands of political dissidents, died of cancer at an Athens hospital Sunday. He was 80 and was serving a life sentence for treason and insurrection.
Papadopoulo... |
a2f6c05c3177213b1f77bc60a5d45003 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jun-30-ss-51762-story.html | EL TORO, 1943 - 1999 | EL TORO, 1943 - 1999
Just after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, in a time when orange groves still stretched alongside dusty farm roads from the Santa Ana Mountains to the sea, the U.S. Marines put their boots down in the heart of Orange County. They wanted a training ground for hotshot pilots destined to do battle in the... |
685943e09fbae105497b17de2f97c791 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-mar-01-ca-12799-story.html | Lucinda Williams Pares Down to Brilliant Simplicity | Lucinda Williams Pares Down to Brilliant Simplicity
Lucinda Williams’ music borders on the infuriating.
She sings in a lazy voice that sounds, not unpleasantly, like a chair being dragged across a wooden floor. Oodles of her songs hinge on simple two-chord changes (imagine a succession of Stones albums where nearly eve... |
3505e95406cdba0476aefc0e6a4a54d2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-mar-05-mn-14328-story.html | Sport-Utility Vehicles to Get New Labels on Rollover Risk | Sport-Utility Vehicles to Get New Labels on Rollover Risk
Addressing growing safety concerns about hot-selling sport-utility vehicles, the government today will announce a requirement for dramatic warnings about the danger of rollovers.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will direct auto makers to post ... |
bc020bd19cb7cd1ca8320c01a850f9ac | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-mar-06-ca-14364-story.html | Eric Bibb Feels No Pain When Singing Blues | Eric Bibb Feels No Pain When Singing Blues
Unless blues music is awfully good, it can be awfully bad. The best blues artists mold the music into a deep personal expression; the rest just connect the dots, trying to fill the rote form of the music with the overwrought sounds of unlived experience.
Not everybody has a he... |
7db2f1b8a9e355a25cd3c503f7b24a78 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-mar-06-mn-14508-story.html | S. Korea Tries to Take Care of Its Own With Domestic Adoptions | S. Korea Tries to Take Care of Its Own With Domestic Adoptions
South Korea, which pioneered inter-country adoption after the Korean War nearly half a century ago, has been dramatically cutting back the number of children it sends overseas each year.
Adoptions have dropped from a peak of more than 8,000 in 1986 to about... |
4ce4778ea0c7a1a68eef4368e191bf30 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-mar-09-fi-15344-story.html | The One That Got Away : With ‘Doug,’ Nickelodeon’s Loss May Be Disney’s Gain | The One That Got Away : With ‘Doug,’ Nickelodeon’s Loss May Be Disney’s Gain
Viacom’s hyper-competitive chairman, Sumner Redstone, wasn’t happy to learn recently that Walt Disney has an animated movie version of the children’s animated TV series “Doug” coming out this month.
It still sticks in the media mogul’s craw th... |
3db8aa029fe82ac77317852541e03ea4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-mar-14-bk-17995-story.html | What Really Happened During Those 11 Hours at the Ritz-Carlton | What Really Happened During Those 11 Hours at the Ritz-Carlton
People lie, certainly. People forget. People make mistakes. One difficulty in following the narrative of the past year’s scandal--which is both utterly frivolous and the gravest threat to our constitutional system in living memory--is that the major charact... |
8a837ccb8de4e38a5e4a1fe003e26853 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-mar-24-fo-20383-story.html | The Soul of Fairfax Avenue | The Soul of Fairfax Avenue
Sixty-odd years ago, when Boyle Heights was a Jewish neighborhood and Canter’s restaurant was on Brooklyn Avenue, Dean Zellman would stop in at the deli for his usual: a corned beef or pastrami sandwich and an egg cream. He would settle into one of the booths with his Uncle Al, or sometimes h... |
218130ab1cf6fb41f4b170219e3ab90e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-mar-25-sp-20958-story.html | Zezel’s Refusal to Report Voids Deal | Zezel’s Refusal to Report Voids Deal
Add another chapter to the Ducks’ book of moves that backfired.
Believing they had added depth at center for the stretch drive and the playoffs, the Ducks were left empty-handed after a trade with the Vancouver Canucks was voided Wednesday.
Peter Zezel, obtained for a late-round dra... |
ced1128d80ff3ddc5c927a6b5b2db564 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-mar-30-fi-22412-story.html | Deal Cements MGM’s Bond to 007 Franchise | Deal Cements MGM’s Bond to 007 Franchise
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. on Monday agreed to pay $5 million for a license to kill any attempt by Sony Pictures Entertainment to make a James Bond movie.
The amount is the net sum MGM will pay to Sony to cement its rights to one of Hollywood’s most valuable film franchises, as we... |
d085ac3e2d4f2386eff472e149e03e47 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-may-01-mn-32969-story.html | Elderly Bank Robber Not Ready for Rocker | Elderly Bank Robber Not Ready for Rocker
At 78, Forrest Silva Tucker apparently wasn’t ready to become just another Florida retiree enjoying the nightly early-bird special.
Twenty years after he escaped from San Quentin prison in a crude kayak, Tucker was captured and accused of robbing a bank earlier this month.
He di... |
9a7feceb27048aeaeeb708004d81dcd1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-may-03-ca-33551-story.html | ‘Rugrats,’ ‘All That’ Win Kids’ Awards | ‘Rugrats,’ ‘All That’ Win Kids’ Awards
“Rugrats” and “All That” were the big winners at Nickelodeon’s 12th annual “Kids’ Choice Awards” honoring youngsters’ favorite programs, movies and celebrities.
“All That” picked up honors Saturday night in Westwood for favorite TV show and favorite TV actor for its Kel Mitchell, ... |
76093e4ae90d0a55e06b3dae33d6958e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-may-06-mn-34515-story.html | Selling Teachers on School Reform | Selling Teachers on School Reform
Huddled around a conference table in a fancy Seattle hotel, America’s most reform-minded teachers union bosses sounded more like crusading politicians than advocates for the rank and file.
Why not tie teachers’ raises to their ability to pass demanding tests? Even better, fire slackers... |
95b7662c5d72c95b2a5c637e10c705d4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-may-07-ca-34695-story.html | She’s a Little Bit Country | She’s a Little Bit Country
Meet Eileen, a 33-year-old country music fan who is sick and tired of all these slick Shania Twain clones. Shaking her head, she asks how the next Willie Nelson or Loretta Lynn can possibly be discovered in this era of pure pop disguised in western wear.
“Cookie cutter,” is how Eileen describ... |
7acc0b05446c43201873cb0d524235b2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-may-09-mn-35378-story.html | At 96, Foster Mom of 162 Says Goodbye | At 96, Foster Mom of 162 Says Goodbye
A half century later, she still remembers the frightened faces of the first two children.
The girl was crying, red-eyed and puffy-faced.
The boy was scowling, and he flinched when she tried to unclasp a pin holding together the summer coat he wore that wintry day.
It was March 1948... |
38447b14049c95ab47dfb014ed89968b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-may-16-sp-37921-story.html | Masters Dinner Wasn’t Always to Squire’s Taste | Masters Dinner Wasn’t Always to Squire’s Taste
Hall of Fame golfer Gene Sarazen, who died last week at 97, usually liked the champion’s dinner each year at the Masters, mainly because he enjoyed eating. But there were exceptions, such as when Tiger Woods served cheeseburgers in 1998.
Said Sarazen: “Cheeseburgers! I don... |
e57000af576eacbb112679ce5e37158b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-may-18-mn-38346-story.html | Robert O. Dougan; Huntington Librarian | Robert O. Dougan; Huntington Librarian
Robert Ormes Dougan, a Book of Kells scholar, bibliophile and librarian who greatly increased the Huntington Library’s vast collection of rare books and manuscripts, has died at the age of 94.
Dougan, the Huntington’s librarian for 14 years, died May 8 at Cottage Hospital in Santa... |
206c281c1eaa5a332be929883707897d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-may-19-me-38764-story.html | Nasty Turn on Charter Reform | Nasty Turn on Charter Reform
Just three weeks before Los Angeles voters will decide whether to reform their city government, the campaign has turned nasty.
The Times, along with neighborhood groups, business and labor leaders, civic activists and others, has urged a yes vote on Measure 1, to adopt a new charter. It wou... |
99526b3106ce7c6fbd724ed219ea0afe | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-may-28-mn-41995-story.html | A White, White World on TV’s Fall Schedule | A White, White World on TV’s Fall Schedule
The new prime-time television season has been unveiled, and guess who’s not coming to dinner this fall.
Of the 26 new comedies and dramas premiering on the major broadcast networks--CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox--not one features a minority in a leading role. Even secondary minority c... |
70cc2aea295c23d8c20201c5edc85612 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-may-31-mn-42793-story.html | Civilian Deaths in Airstrikes Erode NATO Credibility | Civilian Deaths in Airstrikes Erode NATO Credibility
Low-flying NATO bombers destroyed a bridge between two Serbian river towns Sunday, toppling cars into the water and killing at least nine civilians in a midday strike near a crowded riverfront market, witnesses said.
The attack left six people missing in the Velika M... |
c5eee5f0756b5ed3b4346602f0b9f824 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-nov-01-fi-28546-story.html | Pimco to Sell Majority Stake to Allianz | Pimco to Sell Majority Stake to Allianz
Pimco Advisors Holdings, one of the world’s largest bond managers, agreed Sunday to sell 70% of the company to Europe’s second-largest insurer in a $3.3-billion deal that is likely to spur similar marriages between U.S. and foreign financial giants.
Ending months of speculation, ... |
7a5d1a207fea81e4ae52d1b8d99b5242 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-nov-01-me-28639-story.html | Bill Gates’ ‘Diversity’ Subverts Merit | Bill Gates’ ‘Diversity’ Subverts Merit
America’s most celebrated college dropout had a great opportunity to boost higher education, help needy students and strike a blow against racism, but he blew it. If Bill Gates had been able to chat with Teddy Roosevelt before launching his breathtaking $1-billion program of colle... |
bc8339d58278267db762f19da824bcbd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-nov-03-ca-29175-story.html | Classic ‘Two-Lane Blacktop’ Takes the Long Road to Video | Classic ‘Two-Lane Blacktop’ Takes the Long Road to Video
“Two-Lane Blacktop” fans: Start your engines. Monte Hellman’s legendary 1971 road movie is available for the first time on videocassette and DVD.
It has been a long road for the film that before its release was hailed by Esquire magazine as “movie of the year.” A... |
328beb9033bfbcd6e317158f028e2d1f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-nov-06-mn-30725-story.html | Ex-Spouses Go to Court to Split Beanie Babies | Ex-Spouses Go to Court to Split Beanie Babies
A divorced couple who couldn’t agree on how to split up their Beanie Baby collection were ordered by a judge Friday to divide up the babies one by one in a courtroom.
Maple the Bear was the first to go.
“This isn’t about toys. It’s about control,” Family Court Judge Gerald ... |
00a5392cef2d99d856442b3130efaf72 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-nov-07-me-31120-story.html | Activist Behind Royce Canyon Remembered | Activist Behind Royce Canyon Remembered
While frustrated Valley residents are nearing the end of their long and seemingly losing battle to block a city dump expansion in Granada Hills, joyful Griffith Park enthusiasts gathered Saturday to celebrate a decade-old victory in their own fierce dump battle.
As word spread Sa... |
b30600fd28d2fd761a8ff4ffc8d8f42d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-nov-09-mn-31597-story.html | Clinton Holds Historic Online Chat | Clinton Holds Historic Online Chat
There’s no need to store food if you plan to be in the United States when the new millennium dawns.
The chances of a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians are good--"better than 50-50.”
And future world leaders will have to deal with “miniaturized” weapons of mass destru... |
ca4d9eba104a0d12d088539727547de7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-nov-11-me-32277-story.html | Bookkeeper in Estate Fraud Case Enters Guilty Plea | Bookkeeper in Estate Fraud Case Enters Guilty Plea
A bookkeeper pleaded guilty and a lawyer pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges they participated in the embezzlement of more than $750,000 from the estates of 23 people who were too old or infirm to handle their own financial affairs.
The prime suspect in the massive... |
dec5f711588d22e5174ce8afa6f70de5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-nov-12-mn-32706-story.html | Pokemon Fever Turns Into a Headache at Burger King | Pokemon Fever Turns Into a Headache at Burger King
Burger King Corp. may have a whopper of a public relations problem on its hands over its $22-million Pokemon promotion, one of the largest in the history of the fast-food industry.
Dozens of Southland Burger Kings--and scores across the country--ran out of Pokemon toys... |
629f09504fdc0aada2f059c9d8d6169a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-nov-14-me-33498-story.html | Actress Sues to Keep Mother Away From Assets | Actress Sues to Keep Mother Away From Assets
If you’ve seen “Contact,” “Stepmom” or “For Love of the Game” at the movies, if you’ve watched “Chicago Hope,” “Homicide” or “Touched by an Angel” on television, then you’ve seen Jena Malone at work.
This 14-year-old is blessed with talent to burn. She’s burdened, a lawsuit ... |
bd127d97bde8c941f5ae64259cc42a14 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-nov-16-mn-34060-story.html | Time, Space Obsolete in New View of Universe | Time, Space Obsolete in New View of Universe
Ever since early astronomers yanked Earth from center stage in the solar system some 500 years ago, scientists have been pulling the rug out from under people’s basic beliefs.
“The history of physics,” says Harvard physicist Andrew Strominger, “is the history of giving up ch... |
9c250059cfebfe6d58577459d4e5ff0d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-nov-18-ca-34753-story.html | Sidekick Bat Spreads His Wings in ‘Bartok’ | Sidekick Bat Spreads His Wings in ‘Bartok’
Audiences went batty over the impish Bartok in Fox’s 1997 animated musical “Anastasia.”
In fact, the white, wisecracking, diminutive bat was such a favorite of children and adults that he is now starring in his own movie, “Bartok the Magnificent,” which made its video and DVD ... |
2bdb3f375083c93fb201a6725bb42eb3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-nov-19-mn-35321-story.html | 11/19/99: Your Life Will Never Be This Odd Again | 11/19/99: Your Life Will Never Be This Odd Again
Today, 11/19/1999, is the last day of your life in which all the digits of the date will be odd. Such a conjunction of unevenness will not occur again until 1/1/3111.
The next time all the digits of the date will be even will occur in February: 2/2/2000, to be precise. A... |
a3b95ad60212ae2b36b3587316bdb1b5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-nov-20-mn-36275-story.html | Unsolved Slayings Have Small N.M. Town Living in Fear | Unsolved Slayings Have Small N.M. Town Living in Fear
There’s not much to the town. You come upon it in the vast, yellow-brown emptiness of southern New Mexico’s high desert grassland. It’s mainly just a strip of old storefronts on Highway 60, with some dusty side streets.
In a 40-mile radius of Quemado you might find ... |
39615921749aa0fab54747df51467fe2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-nov-26-cl-37624-story.html | Mail-Bonding With Our Readers | Mail-Bonding With Our Readers
Going Postal: When packages for reporters arrive at the Los Angeles Times, security guards usually X-ray them (the packages, not the reporters), presumably to check for bombs but also to intercept cool product samples for top editors.
The only reason we know this is because every parcel re... |
2812a19f97b68bd59e3390a73867a5c8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-nov-28-mn-38327-story.html | A Bitter Harvest: Iowa Farmer Calls It Quits | A Bitter Harvest: Iowa Farmer Calls It Quits
As the copper glow of the fall sunset fades, Roger Warne’s tractor chugs along the dusty gravel road, hauling in a load of beans. It is a routine chore, but this year it carries more weight--the heavy weight of family history.
This is his last harvest.
This too is the end of... |
b273d46718d04efec1d03c199d23da25 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-nov-30-cl-38801-story.html | Honors Roll for Dutch-American Doctor at the Petersen Social Circuits | Honors Roll for Dutch-American Doctor at the Petersen Social Circuits
When the Dutch returned the salute of an American brig of war on Nov. 16, 1776, the Netherlands became the first foreign nation to recognize the sovereignty of the United States.
However, it wasn’t until 1991 that then-President George Bush establish... |
1f935ff7cd9459acbe4965e953dfee0f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-oct-01-fi-17374-story.html | Fannie Mae Moves to Loosen Home Loan Credit Rules | Fannie Mae Moves to Loosen Home Loan Credit Rules
The nation’s largest provider of mortgage funds, moving to increase homeownership among minorities and low-income citizens, unveiled a program Thursday to loosen lending standards for people with “slightly impaired” credit.
The Federal National Mortgage Assn. said it wi... |
c06abcb9ec79c58358c9f36ea1c543af | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-oct-04-me-18604-story.html | Era Ends as 78-Year-Old Men’s Store Calls It Quits | Era Ends as 78-Year-Old Men’s Store Calls It Quits
The shelves were almost empty in the final days of Zellman’s Menswear in Boyle Heights. About a dozen men’s jackets hung from the racks and some baseball caps lined the wall. Shoes were going for 99 cents; pants were half off. Even the headless mannequins were for sale... |
ebc49da7e988a95197c3a66ebac2ed9d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-oct-05-mn-18937-story.html | Jury Slams State Farm on Generic Auto Parts | Jury Slams State Farm on Generic Auto Parts
In a major setback for the auto insurance industry, a jury in Illinois on Monday ordered the nation’s largest car insurer to pay $456 million for cheating millions of customers by ordering body shops to fix their cars with low-cost generic replacement parts.
The award against... |
f620da0eb92e9d1d915b8ef8a7bdfbb0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-oct-06-me-19524-story.html | George Winston’s Hawaiian Getaway | George Winston’s Hawaiian Getaway
Almost from the beginning, George Winston has built albums around seasonal or geographic themes. It started in 1980 with his second album, “Autumn,” included “Winter Into Spring” and “December,” both from 1982, “Summer” from 1991 and 1994’s “Forest.”
His new album, “Plains,” is no exce... |
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